Fin de 2021

Here’s some recent work completed in the final days of 2021.

Tread Lightly – a sample piece for a story I’m marinating on.
Jellyfish Girl – inspired by kelp forests

Commercial Observer 2021- 4th year in a row

I’ve been fortunate to be able to illustrate portraits for Commercial Observer for four years in a row now. Here are 20 portraits of real-estate bigwigs for their 2021 Lenders Issue

Portrait factory on my drafting table

Spiders and meat – recent work

Now that I have your attention with that title…here are two recent illustrations of completely unrelated subjects:

First, an illustration about the habitat of the Western black widow spider and a monarch for the Nature Conservancy of Canada

Secondly an illustration of various meat items for Penn Stater’s Big 3 column.

A friendly black widow spider illustration!
I can draw monarchs in my sleep now 🙂
Illustrating meat is surprisingly fun for a vegetarian

Jane Eyre series

One of the projects I’ve wanted to tackle for a long time has been to do a series of illustrations for Charlotte Brönte’s  Jane Eyre. I recently re-read it and was amazed at how good it was. It’s a Victorian page-turner! I’m a big fan of the Victorian gothic imagery and the romantic melodrama. Having recently returned from a trip to England, I was also inspired by the moors, the tors and the hedgerows. Here are the illustrations: